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She says that could look like having good systems in place, doing aggressive outreach so people know what they have to do to keep their insurance, and making it easy for people with health issues to qualify for an exemption.

I'm Samantha Fields for Marketplace.

With inflation in Europe surging higher, the ECB is returning to the playbook it successfully used to fight inflation after COVID, says Daniela Hathorne at Capital.com.

That means the ECB has some wiggle room.

The Europeans aren't the only ones eyeing higher rates, says Jennifer Lee at BMO Capital Markets.

Futures markets predict the U.S.

Federal Reserve will hold rates steady at its meeting this month and in July, September, and October, not hiking rates until December at the earliest, which could prove risky, says former Fed economist Claudia Somm.

The challenge is to predict how long this rapid acceleration in prices will last.

Like other central banks seem ready to do right now.

This disconnect between the Fed and its major economy counterparts is relatively new, says Jennifer Lee.

Now, she says, it's each central bank for itself.

I asked her, do you think the new Fed chair, Kevin Warsh, will be influenced by other central banks' rate decisions?

One voice he probably does care about?

The president's, says Daniela Hawthorne.

She warns if Warsh does, holding out for rate cuts in the face of resurgent inflation, it'll undermine the Fed's credibility globally.

I'm Mitchell Hartman for Marketplace.

On a suburban side road about 15 minutes from the center of Charleston, West Virginia, there's a quiet hissing sound, almost completely masked by traffic noise coming from I-64.

The culprit is hard to find, but David McMahon has heard old oil wells make this sound before.

He's a lawyer and co-founder of the West Virginia Surface Owners Rights Organization.

He wades through a mess of wild grapevines and Virginia creeper.